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1892 Syracuse, New York - 1959 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Figure, genre, portrait, illustration.
(William) Andrew Loomis was an illustrator, teacher and creator of "how-to-do-books" on drawing and painting for illustrators, like Viking Press publications Fun with a Pencil, 1939, Figure Drawing... Read full biography
(William) Andrew Loomis was an illustrator, teacher and creator of "how-to-do-books" on drawing and painting for illustrators, like Viking Press publications Fun with a Pencil, 1939, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth, 1943, and Creative Illustration, 1947. In 1951, Successful Drawing was published... Read full biography
(William) Andrew Loomis was an illustrator, teacher and creator of "how-to-do-books" on drawing and painting for illustrators, like Viking Press publications Fun with a Pencil, 1939, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth, 1943, and Creative Illustration, 1947. In 1951, Successful Drawing was published (it re-appeared in 1961 as Three-Dimensional Drawing). Drawing the Head and Hands was published in 1956. They were all immensely successful. Loomis' last book, Eye of the Painter and Elements of... Read full biography
(William) Andrew Loomis was an illustrator, teacher and creator of "how-to-do-books" on drawing and painting for illustrators, like Viking Press publications Fun with a Pencil, 1939, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth, 1943, and Creative Illustration, 1947. In 1951, Successful Drawing was published (it re-appeared in 1961 as Three-Dimensional Drawing). Drawing the Head and Hands was published in 1956. They were all immensely successful. Loomis' last book, Eye of the Painter and Elements of Beauty, posthumously published in 1961 (he died in 1959), unlike his earlier instruction books, is filled with examples of fine art, but little of his own work. Loomis was born in 1892 in Syracuse, New York, growing up in Zanesville, Ohio. In 1911, he... Read full biography
(William) Andrew Loomis was an illustrator, teacher and creator of "how-to-do-books" on drawing and painting for illustrators, like Viking Press publications Fun with a Pencil, 1939, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth, 1943, and Creative Illustration, 1947. In 1951, Successful Drawing was published (it re-appeared in 1961 as Three-Dimensional Drawing). Drawing the Head and Hands was published in 1956. They were all immensely successful. Loomis' last book, Eye of the Painter and Elements of Beauty, posthumously published in 1961 (he died in 1959), unlike his earlier instruction books, is filled with examples of fine art, but little of his own work. Loomis was born in 1892 in Syracuse, New York, growing up in Zanesville, Ohio. In 1911, he studied with Frank Vincent Dumond and George Bridgman at the Art Students Le... Read full biography
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Keywords (33)
Art Method
- •Art Design
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Female Face and Figure
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Art Association
- •American Federation of Arts
- •Society of Illustrators-
Art Teacher
- •Frank Vincent DuMond
- •George Bridgman
- •George Oberteuffer
- •John Fabian Carlson
- •Leopold Seyffert
Art School
- •American Academy of Art, Chicago, Teacher
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Cream of Wheat Ad Illustration Artist
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Illustration Specialty
- •SATURDAY EVENING POST Illustrator and/or Photographer
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Society of Illustrators